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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 6. 1966.

NZSPA Service

NZSPA Service

Auckland.—The Massey students' association has laid charges of wilful damage with the police against prominent Auckland students. The charges arise out of the burning of 600 copies of Masskerade by a group of Auckland students.

A spokesman for the uniform branch, Auckland Central police station, told NZSPA that charges had been laid against Auckland president Richard Wood, Capping committee member Kevin Berry and Auckland Capping Mag co-editor Dave Calder. All these students, the police alleged, had taken part in the burning of the books, confiscated from Massey students selling them on Auckland streets.

The police spokesman said Mr. Wood had authorised the burnings on behalf of the Auckland University Students' Association. Therefore, the police felt any complaints should properly nave been laid against the association itself.

However, he emphasised, the police were taking no action immediately on the complaints. They hoped a meeting of student presidents in Wellington on May 28 would reach a settlement, allowing the charges to be withdrawn.

"Anyway, we're too busy just now to worry about this."